London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

The Fifth Estate, the film based of the WikiLeaks story with Benedict Cumberbatch starring as Julian Assange, has had a stinging review from, er, Julian Assange, who called it “a geriatric snoozefest that only the US government could love”.

Benedict Cumberbatch does a brilliant impersonation of WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange but the story of an organisation that publishes secret information online just doesn't offer up much dramatic opportunity

As a new film — The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange — premieres next week dramatising the WikiLeaks affair, Susannah Butter looks behind the scenes at how the fugitive whistleblower’s story was brought to the big screen